MORE VIGNETTE PHOTOS

from top: Teddy, Monty, Daisy, and Charley

VIGNETTE PHOTOS

The following photos were taken today in the supermarket and the CVS parking lot using my new Samsung Fascinate cell phone and the Vignette app.

THE ART OF GIVING

My entry for the "Art of Giving" Art Show (click on the image above to see a larger version of this painting)

mixed media—acrylic paint and archival papers and ink
12"x12"

The idea for this painting came to me after making several items for Hats for the Homeless. As noted on their website, this organization "grew out of the heart of one young man who cared about those less fortunate. Each year he would gather friends during the Holiday season and together they would roam the streets of New York City, giving hats, scarves, and gloves to the homeless. He died suddenly in 1998. Hats for the Homeless was created in his memory to continue the tradition he started." The weekend before Christmas the giftwrapped items are distributed to the homeless at St. Francis Xavier's Soup Kitchen on West 15th Street in NYC.

The "Art of Giving" art show will be held at the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce in Shelton, CT, from Nov. 14–Dec. 3. The opening reception and presentation of awards will take place on Nov. 14. from 1-5 pm. Thirty percent of the proceeds from the sale of artwork will be used for community efforts by the show's sponsors—the Valley Arts Council and the Valley Philanthropy Council.

ART HOUSE "WHAT DO YOU DREAM ABOUT?" PROJECT

My entry for the Art House "What Do You Dream About?" Project.

Please click on the image above to see a larger version of this illustration.

For information on the project, visit http://www.arthousecoop.com/.

pen and ink with colored pencil

ART HOUSE SELF PORTRAIT PROJECT

My entry for the Art House Self Portrait Project.

Please click on the image above to see a larger version of this illustration.

For information on the project, visit http://www.arthousecoop.com/.

pen and ink with watercolor

Did you find me in the top photo? (Start in the bottom left corner, count over four and up two.) For more photos taken at the Art House exhibit in Brooklyn, NY, in March, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/arthousecoop/sets/72157623822829873/.

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY

CRUNCHY

This week's word immediately brought to mind Monty Python's Whizzo Quality Assortment of chocolates—in particular, "Crunchy Frog."

This confection is made of "the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose."

"If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?"

Please click on the image above to see a larger version of this illustration.

pen and ink; color added in Photoshop

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY

INFINITE

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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pen and ink; color added in Photoshop